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(Archived document, may contain errors) A Special Report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee No. 25 4/15/96 THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION: A BAD DEAL FOR AMERICA By Baker Spring Senior Policy Analyst THE DECADES-LONG EFFORT TO BAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS
© OPCW Fernando Arias, Director OPCWThe stated mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is to ensure "a world free of chemical weapons." From his executive suite at The Hague, however, OPCW Director General Fernando Arias has been on a different mission: keeping the organization free of accountability for an explosive Syria cover-up scandal, and trying to silence two veteran inspectors who blew the whistle. Arias has refused to address the manipulation of the OPCW's probe into an alleged chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma. Back in April 2018, the U...
Part 1 of 2... In the two years since the censorship of a Syria chemical weapons investigation was exposed, the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Fernando Arias, has vigorously resisted accountability. Arias has refused to investigate or explain the extensive manipulation of the OPCW’s probe of an alleged April 2018 chlorine attack in Douma. Rather than answer calls to meet with the veteran inspectors who protested the deception, Arias has disparaged them. The OPCW Director General (DG) has even resorted to feigning ignorance about the scandal, rece...